Dr Pedram Shojai is a man with many titles. He is the founder of TheUrbanMonk.com, co-founder of whole.tv, the NYT Best Selling author of The Urban Monk, Rise and Shine, The Art of Stopping Time, and Inner Alchemy. He is the producer and director of the movies Vitality, Origins, and Prosperity. He's also produced several documentary series including Interconnected, Gateway to Health, and the upcoming Exhausted series.

In his spare time, he's also a taoist abbot, a doctor of oriental medicine, a kung fu world traveler, a fierce global green warrior, an avid backpacker, a devout alchemist, a Qi Gong master, and an old school Jedi biohacker, working to preserve our natural world and wake us up to our full potential.